Cat: Hey all! Not so many Rangers, but a short break from most of the action here as we all take a deep breath. There is some action, and obviously some Rangers. Also, I was very loose with years were. The ages of the kids are the ones that I thought worked best for this story. I am assuming that more time past between each season than the show implies, but this is purely for the betterment of this story. There are no elderly Rangers or anything scary like that.

Disclaimer: If I owned the Power Rangers, it would mean that I'd never have to do Chemistry homework again. That'd be awesome.

The Astromegaship touched down in a large plaza. "Okay Kira, I'm going to find Justin. You stay on the ship."

"But Mrs. Hammond I—"

"Stay." She ordered, then softened slightly. "And it's Ashley. Just Ashley. I'm not that old." She added and disembarked. Kira stood in the doorway. Ashley had taken Hannah to a deeper part of the ship to be with the other kids where it was safe. Kira felt just like her. Not that she particularly wanted to die, but she didn't want to feel like she was being protected either. She could take care of herself just as well as any other Ranger, even if she was one of the youngest. But no, everyone insisted on keeping her where she was safe.

Ashley hustled out to the middle of the open space and was met by a man Kira had to assume was Justin. He held a squirming bundle tenderly in his arms and he and Ashley talked for a moment before the rest of the Zeo Rangers appeared. Kira watched them talk seriously for a minute before Justin handed the bundle, who must have been Sam, to Ashley. As the yellow ranger turned to return to the ship a hundred aliens appeared. It was clear in the first four minutes of battle how it would end, and it would not be in glorious Ranger fashion.

Kira wondered briefly if she should run out and help or stay and guard this ship, but her question was quickly answered. Ashley made a break for the ship and, panting, pushed Justin's kid into Kira's arms. "Take him, and take off." Ashley instructed.

"What! I can't. I mean, how do you fly this thing?" Ashley smiled slightly.

"DECA can help you. And so can Greg, he knows the basics."

"But—"

"Find your friends, then call Andros." Ashley instructed and dashed off. Kira stared at her for a moment then the baby in her arms gave a violent wail and she started to the present and slammed her hand down on a nearby keypad, sending the door sliding shut. Kira hurried to the bridge and set Sam unceremoniously in a chair and attempted to imitate the way she had seen the AstroRanger communicate with the ship.

"DECA, get Greg." She ordered clumsily. For a minute she thought that the ship might be laughing at her, but quickly discarded the thought as impossible.

Kira felt she had a better chance of actually succeeding if she was dealing with a real human, even if she looked like a complete dork to some boy she'd never met. Kira had prided herself on not being one to go completely crazy when it came to boys. She liked them, but it wasn't constantly on her mind. And there was no way she was going to make an exception for the boy who stumbled onto the bridge.

He had sandy blond hair that fell into his dark eyes and very noticeably tones muscles. He wasn't bad looking, but as soon as she set eyes on her he scowled. "What's with you?" He asked crossing his arms over his chest. "Where's my mother?"

"Ashley says we're leaving. Now." Kira replied, matching his tone.

"Then why do you need me?" Kira looked at him meaningfully. Greg rolled his eyes but moved to the center of the controls.

"DECA, set the standard parameters for flight. Location?" It took Kira a moment to realize that he was talking to her.

"Oh, Turtle Cove." She replied, feeling oddly flustered by his dismissive attitude.

"Set a course for Turtle Cove. Firing engines." He announced and pushed up a lever. The engines flared obediently and the craft hovered a foot in the air. Kira glanced out the window before them. There was a solid wall of aliens of all shapes, sizes, and abilities that she assumed had come from Lothor's army. The Rangers were fighting their hardest, but she figured they could use at least a little help.

"Wait, how do you fire the lasers?" She asked. Greg looked at her, then glanced out the window and it dawned on him what she was thinking.

"DECA, I need the right laser only. Laser strength at low power, beam width one foot." He called to the ship.

"Laser set and ready." It chimed and Greg aimed carefully. He fired three times in quick succession and the Yellow AstroRanger stared at them, she waved franticly for them to leave as monsters began swarming them.

"Okay, we're leaving." Greg announced and pressed an official looking red button. The ship rocketed off, but not without taking out more then half of the army that the rangers had been fighting.

"Excellent." He congratulated himself.

"Wow. Thanks for all your help." Kira said and Greg seemed to remember that she was there.

"Help? I did everything. For a Ranger you're kinda pathetic."

"All right, then thanks for doing everything." Kira decided to let the slur on her Ranger status slide. Now that she wasn't in a panic she was able to size him up. He looked to be about fifteen and Kira wondered what he was doing here. She hadn't heard of him being a Ranger, but then why was he here? Then she remembered. 'Where's my mother?' This was Ashley's son! She sent up a silence squeal of happiness before she remembered that it meant that Greg's mom was in serious danger and she instantly felt somewhat sorry for him.

Greg strode over to where Kira had plopped the now bawling Sam and picked him up, cooing in his ear. He quieted slowly as Greg sped down the hall, Kira following curiously. "You're good with kids." She observed.

"And I suppose you're too busy being a Ranger to babysit." Greg said coldly.

"Actually I'm an only child"

"So am I." Greg said and showed her a room which had clear been converted into a nursery fairly recently. As in, in the last twenty four hours. There were two beds and a rug on the floor along with a couple of blocks but that was about it as far as child's things. There was a map on the wall that someone had inserted several dozen colorful pushpins into, and there was a table with an expensive looking computer on it pushed up against the wall. Hannah was staring at a book that was several years too advanced for her and a pair of twin girls, about three, were snoozing on the bed.

Greg gently pulled the baby out of Kira's awkward grip and Kira was not exactly sorry to let him go. "Hey Sam." He cooed dully. "That's a good boy." He said, bouncing him slightly. "So, what's happened to your buds down in Turtle Cove?" Greg asked the yellow Ranger, offering Sam a blanket off the unoccupied bed.

"Trent happened."

"Well obviously. I meant specifically."

"Trent tricked our zords into tearing each other to pieces." Kira answered.

"Oh." There was silence until, without warning, Sam started to cry. Kira looked mildly panicked as Greg tried several ways to calm him down. He tried rocking him, playing with him, talking to him, and finally he looked at Kira.

"Hold Sam. I'll be back." For the second time that day Kira found herself holding a crying infant.

"What? Where are you going?"

"To get him some milk. He's probably hungry." Greg answered and walked out. He reappeared a couple minutes later with Sam and Kira exactly where he had left them. Kira still looked unsure of that to do, and Sam was still crying. Greg rolled his eyes and sighed as he took the baby back and deftly stuck the bottle in his mouth. Sam looked bewildered for a moment, then began drinking happily.

Just as that crisis was averted Hannah toddled up. She began climbing all over them both. She disturbed Sam, who began crying again, and fell into Kira's lap. "Kira, go read to her or something." Greg grumbled, upset that he had to calm Sam back down. Not only that but the twins had woken up and were fussing.

"How do I do that?" Kira asked, feeling stupider by the second. It didn't help that Greg looked at her as though she had about the same IQ as a rock.

"What do you mean 'how do you do that?'? It's reading! Please tell me that you can read!"

"Of course I can read!"

"Then do it!" Greg ordered and Kira turned right round, sat on the floor which Hannah in her lap, and read her a story. By the time she'd finished the twins were asleep again and Sam had spit up all over Greg, much to Kira's delight. He had cleaned himself up though and now as long as he was holding the baby, the baby was being quiet.

Kira left Hannah looking at the pictures and went to stand next to Greg. She glanced at the twins. From what she'd heard kids that age were supposed to be awful, but they were sleeping like angels. "They're behaving at least." She said nodding towards them.

"My dad thinks that Leo and Kendrix must have drugged them before they sent them here. Otherwise they wouldn't be sleeping so much."

"Oh." Kira cast about for another topic. "What's that a map of?"

"Oh that's nothing. I've been stuck in here for ages, so I'd decided I was going to do something useful and track where all the rangers were."

"So that's what all these points are." Kira said. "Did you notice what I'm noticing?"

"That depends."

"The Rangers are really spread out. What happened to safety in numbers?" Greg had to admit that Kira had a point. He'd taken out all the pins that he wasn't sure about and left only positive facts. They were spread out everywhere, worse then that, they were getting attacked everywhere.

"We are approaching Turutle Cove." DECA announced.

"I'll go." Greg and Kira said at the same time.

"You can't go, you have to stay with Sam and the others." Kira said.

"I have to go. You can't land this ship." Greg retorted.

"But you don't even know who you're looking for." Kira replied.

"Why don't you both go? I can take care of everything." Hannah said. Greg and Kira exchanged a dubious look, but Greg made it work.

"Okay Hannah, why don't you do us a huge favor and take care of your cousins Beth and Kerri?" Hannah's eyes light up and Kira and Greg both headed towards the bridge, Kira cradling Sam.

Greg shouted some stuff at DECA but landed the Megaship without too much trouble. Immediately several people rushed up.

"Hold him." Kira said and handed Sam off and headed outside to greet her fellow DinoRangers and the Wild Force Rangers.

"Kira! Your call had us worried." Alyssa said.

"We can't talk here, come on." She ushered them onto the ship and was about to close the door when Trent appeared on the walkway. Kira brought her fist down on the keypad and the door began to shut and her breathing constricted fearfully. It seemed to Kira to move in slow motion as Trent ran towards her. It inched shut and Trent ate up the few steps between the two of them, but by the time he reached it there was only an inch of space left open and it snapped shut before his eyes.

"Greg! Take off!" Kira shouted. "Now!"

"Hold on everybody!" Greg called as the ship shot upward, sending Trent careening of the platform to land heavily on the pavement. Kira breathed a sigh of relief. Trent wasn't getting them up here.

"Uh, Kira. We might have a problem." Conner called. He was on the bridge with the others and Kira hurried in. The Dracozord was streaking towards them.

"What is that thing?" Greg asked.

"It's Trent."

"Here." Greg passed her Sam and proceeded dashing around pressing buttons all over the place. It was then that Kira noticed that the bridge had been designed to be operated by five people. Greg had been doing it by himself. "Move that lever." He ordered, pointing. Kira hesitantly moved the one she assumed that he was indicating.

"That one?" He didn't bother to respond.

"We'll get into space. The zord shouldn't be able to fly without air." Greg reasoned. "Prepare to leave the atmosphere." He called.

"What does that mean?" Taylor asked.

"Leaving atmosphere." Greg said by way of explanation and the ship jerked violently. Everyone fell to the floor and Sam started crying again. Everyone pulled themselves to their feet shakily and watched nervously as the Dracozord fell away. It tumbled back down through the clouds and vanished from sight.

"Yes!" Kira and Greg exchanged a high five and turned to see the others staring at them. Ethan glanced from Kira, to the baby in her arms, to the other boy, to the baby again, and back to Kira.

"Are you two going out?" He asked, breaking the strange stillness. Kira and Greg looked at each other in horror.

"No!" The said in unison and Ethan didn't want to admit how much better that made him feel. He had no reason to resent anyone that Kira went out with, did he?

"Do I seriously look like I would go out with the bubble-headed blonde?" Greg asked.

"Bubblehead!" Kira repeated.

"Well, look at the facts." Greg said calmly. "You can't fly a ship, you can't babysit, you can't recognize a map of the world, and you can't read." He ticked them off on his fingers.

Kira glared and decided to prove that she was anything but bubble-headed (not that she really trusted any insult Greg had anyways, he'd shown over the last couple hours that he didn't really mean half of what he said) "Okay Mr. I-Can-Do-Everything, here's the deal." She said. Greg braced himself for what was coming. "You go and deal with the kids and I won't tell Daddy what a bad boy you've been."

"I don't know what you're talking about." Greg said firmly.

"Really? Because I know for a fact you were spying. How else would you have found out where all the Rangers were? I seriously doubt that they'd just tell you such sensitive information." Greg said nothing. He knew he was beat, and what was worse, Kira knew it too. "Here ya go. Have fun." She said cheerfully as she thrust Sam on him. Greg grumbled something and dragged his feet as he left, but he was gone and Kira felt very proud of herself.

"Only one problem now." Max said. "Greg might have been a jerk, but he did know how to fly the ship."

"We're not flying it. Not yet anyways." Taylor pointed out.

"Do we even know what we're supposed to do now? Where are the Astro Rangers? This is their ship." Conner said.

"And Where's Maya and Kimberly?"

"Long story." Kira admitted, then turned her attention to the task at hand. "DECA, I need a communications route with Andros."

"Audio communication in place." DECA chimed and Andros' voice came on.

"Yes?"

"Andros this is Kira."

"Kira, don't say who's with you or where you're going." Andros warned.

"Right, but what do you want me to do?"

"I can't tell you, you're on your own." Kira swallowed.

"What do things look like there?" She asked.

"Under control. Don't come looking for us, we'll be fine. Now, just keep moving, and don't leave the ship. I've got to go." Andros finished and the line broke.

"Now what?" Conner asked.

"We do as Andros suggested, we continue moving and we stay onboard the ship." Shayla said.

"But where do we move to?" Danny wondered.

"Somewhere Trent can't get us. Somewhere where we can be useful." Cole mused.

"DECA," Kira said suddenly. "Set a course for Merinoi."

"The Lost Galaxy Rangers." Cole said happily.

"A Lost Galaxy Ranger." Kira corrected. "Hopefully."

"Okay you lost me." Ethan requested.

"Who cares about that?" Conner asked loudly. "All I wanna know is where you got the baby."

Cat: He he. Craziness based a lot on my own siblings. As you can see, more and more Rangers are getting involved in this fic, and there's still lots more where that came from. Now please review if you liked the chapter (or if you hated it)